Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown over him on his first day of campaigning in Clacton, the Essex constituency where he is making his eighth attempt to become an MP. The Reform UK leader was coming out of a pub after a rally on Clacton’s beachfront when a young woman drenched him with what appeared to be a banana milkshake from McDonald’s.
The woman, who gave her name as Victoria, told the BBC she had not come to the event to throw the drink but did so because Farage “did not stand” for her. Farage had earlier told crowds of supporters that young people’s minds were being “poisoned” in schools as he promised to stand against what he called “woke nonsense”.
I strongly believe/hope that most people want to do this but have the same type of invisible forcefield that keeps us from running of a cliff holding us (because me included) back
In the UK it's not gonna get you anymore than a slap on the wrist but it also makes the person that receives one look utterly fucking pathetic. Also making these fascists look like utterly pathetic weaklings is one of the better ways to deal with them.
It also cuts short whatever they're doing and makes them fuck off. You want an event with a fascist over with? Milkshake. They need to take a shower now. They're gonna leave.
holy shit that photo of her going down the stairs to applause is , she looks fucking great, she's obviously pleased as hell with her anti-fascist direct action, if there were a photo of me that looked like that I'd carry it around in my wallet and show it to everyone I met
At first only posted the glob of 3 photos. Then I scrolled down the Bluesky thread and I saw the original of her. I realized that if I cropped that photo to be focused on her and the guy clapping - it was perfect.
I remember Owen Jones (left wing talking head who's sort of adjacent to Novara media) saying it was a good thing on twitter yesterday and then conservatives going "so was it a good thing when a neo Nazi attacked you and tried to kill you by slamming your head into the pavement? " in his replies as if they're remotely the same thing